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Frankly Freddy Blog
TextProject president and CEO Elfrieda H. (Freddy) Hiebert blogs about important issues in reading research and practice.
Frankly Freddy entries (published from 2005 to 2014) have been sorted into five topics of literacy learning and instruction. Click here to download the ebook!
Opening the dialogue
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There are some children who come to school who officially learn to read in school but who have had hundreds of hours of experiences with books, print, and language play.
What Exactly is a Decodable Text?
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Any text written in English is decodable at some level in that the code never deviates from the alphabetic system. However, the degree to which the letter-sound correspondences within words are common or consistent can vary considerably.
Whatever Happened to Dick and Jane?
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If you were 6 years old between 1930-1967 in the U.S., there is a high likelihood that this text was the first of your school career.
High-Leverage Action #3
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ELLs may have the concepts of a topic but simply give the concepts different labels than the English ones. In a unit on the human body, native Spanish speakers know about a skeleton.
High-Leverage Action #1
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We know that oral language is a primary way in which meaning gets constructed and built. Through talk, we come to understand concepts and our interpretations and ownership of ideas.
High-Leverage Actions That Can Make a Difference
As facilitator of the 2009 CREATE conference, I promised attendees that I would reflect on what I view to the important take-aways from the conference and share them in this venue.
Private, Personal, and Peculiar
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An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be established by a literal translation of the words in the phrase.